Make tons of money, ignore bad outcomes, gaslight the injured, and just keep pretending everything is fine while you continue selling dangerous products and services. Just another day in the medical biz. (No, not everyone in the biz, but often enough to use caution and to do your own research BEFORE you subject yourself to a procedure or pharmaceutical).
Even when bad outcomes ARE actually rare, it's worth remembering: Even rare outcomes happen to actual people, and when it happens to YOU, it happens 100%.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/health/doctors-former-patients-warn-of-lasik-eye-surgery-dangers/
The suicide of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania police officer over the after-effects of the popular eye surgery LASIK was not an isolated incident, with others saying it left them with agonizing and life changing symptoms, patients and doctors told The Post.
LASIK providers say the procedure is 95% to 99% safe, but one LASIK survivor said she had suicidal ideations for two years after her “disastrous” surgery in 2000.
She also claimed to know of at least 40 people to have taken their own lives because they couldn’t take constant pain and vision problems, developed after the procedure.
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A roommate and I were getting a criminal justice degree in the 90’s. He wanted to be a state trooper since he was a kid. To be a state trooper you had to have 20/20 vision so as soon as Radial keratotomy was approved he went to have it done. I told him he was crazy, as the procedure was new, invasive and it’s your eyes! Three months after he was wearing four pairs of glasses throughout the day because his cornea was so weak his sight would change throughout the day. He dropped out of school, moved home and I never saw the man again. That was my first red pill about the medical establishment. I would love to live without glasses and have even considered having it done, but the Doctor I’ve consulted with is the best in the state and highly regarded. I still haven't pulled the trigger though.